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Features
- EZ All-inOne Printer Sharing - USB Port
- BroadRange delivers 300 percent more signal coverage than standard 802.11g
- 125 High Speed Mode (HSM) provides 135 percent transfer speed compared to standard 11g product.
- Bridge two WL-520GU to enable total wireless coverage to 2 buildings (houses) or a enormous residential complex.
- Diagnostic and Bandwidth Management Tools - Dr. Surf, EZQoS
Product Description
ASUS WL-520gU - EZ Wireless Router with All-in-One Printer Server: All-in-One Printer Server: Wirelessly and simultaneously share printing and scanning functions for multiple users; Auto-detection and New EZ UI (Easy User Interface): delivers the easiest and fastest way to setup your router; EZ QoS - Powerful and easily-operated BOD (Bandwidth On Demand) streamlines your Gaming/Audio/Video experience.SimilarProduct
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Customer reviews
Very easy to setup, especially if you have setup a router before. 
by .. C. Elliott ()
I do not believe this is a first time router. If you have never setup a router before I would probably go with a Linksys or Netgear. Or if you are confident you do not need support from Asus to set it up out of box, then I would get it.
It is VERY easy to setup with the browser setup, but Asus *support* is lackluster. Their website is slow or unresponsive at times or may not even come up (blank page). The customer service reps are very nice and professional, but I found a few to not know the products I call in for and feel they are reading off a script.
That being said, I love this router. I run dd-wrt on it as well and it rock solid. The default firmware seems good and probably works for the general public perfectly fine. DD-wrt allows me to run a print, web, and nas server off a usb hub connected to the usb port. Seems well designed / ventilated because it runs no where near burning hot like a Netgear router I have. The range works great and I see no problems in my two story townhome with any connectivity issues. Matter of fact I see 5 out of 5 bars while I'm one story above the router on the second floor on my laptop.
Just get the tomato or DD-WRT firmware and its great! by .. Trevor Muhlestein (Provo, UT)
Just as so many people have said this before, make sure you grab the DD-WRT firmware or the tomato firmware with the teddy bear mod and you should be just fine. its an amazing product. I havn't had it go down once in the last month I have had it. It pairs nicely with my Linksys m100 cable modem for Comcast. I am pushing close to 20 Mbps constant. I was very concerned about how much power this USB port had on it and if I needed a powered USB splitter or not. Well I took the risk and I have a 4 port Belkin Mini Hub (F5U407) connected to it so I can connect my printer and my usb HDD to it and it works great! Tomato allows me to run a FTP and opendns all with my dyndns account always being updated without a computer which is very nice. I used duct tape and taped the hub to the top of the device and it looks good. I am getting a super fast connetion to the internet through my wireless although I havn't ran it through any tests its plenty fast for online gaming. Also I run a media center from my PC to laptop that connects via HDMI to my plasma and it works fantastic, not one hiccup during movies or music so far.
The deivce doesn't seem to get hot at all. just a slight warm. all in all it looks good, works as it should, and just blows past my expectations.
The only thing that would have been nice is 802.11n support but right now I am ok with it.
Incredible, if you use third party firmware! by .. B. M Sullivan (New York, NY United States)
I want to preface this review with a warning, if you don't intend to use Tomato or DDWRT firmware on this device then DO NOT purchase it! That being said, I popped this out of the box and installed Tomato ND almost immediately. The general consensus on the stock firmware is that it is abysmal and not worth touching!
So far I have three of these running, one at home and two at the office. All of them have been running flawlessly for months. I think my longest runtime is 80 days, but only due to power outages! The office ones are also running WDS, with the main one running a modified Tomato ND version with OpenVPN, which also works flawlessly.
I was slightly concerned about ventilation on these boxes, as they are just plastic with two minor vents yet I haven't had any issues. One of the office WDS links is running in an unventilated computer cabinet and hasn't had so much as a hiccup. One thing to note on WDS though is that I was unable to get them to run unless I used WPA/AES, TKIP would not work at all. This isn't a big deal, but is counterintuitive during setup.
Whether you choose to run Tomato ND or DDWRT is entirely up to you, but I don't think you will be disappointed with either one! Initial setup can be daunting for the technically challenged, but there are walk through guides out there. Definitely worth every penny, especially if you can get one with a rebate!
Wonderful device by .. LO (SoCal, USA)
I've had this router for about six months now. I installed a 3rd-party firmware on it (search for "Tomato ND" or "DD-Wrt", it was surprisingly easy) and it's been running nonstop, without reboot ever since. Connections are stable (with about 5-6 clients over WPA), range is sufficient (for my small apartment anyway), transfer speeds are good; in short, everything works great. I couldn't be happier -- especially since I got this on sale. :)
With Tomato your Router can act as NAS and more by .. W. Liu ()
If you do not install 3rd-party firmware, such as DD-WRT or Tomato on this router, then I'm not sure you would want this router at this price ($40+). The only upside is that they have some form of QoS. The router's USB 2.0 port with the ASUS stock firmware can only share printers over the network.
If you do decide to install 3rd-party firmware, such as the often-recommended Tomato ("teddybear mod"), then this router turns into quite a great router. Aside from the usual benefits of 3rd-party firmware like advanced QoS management, or using your router as a wireless repeater, or setting up a VPN, the WL-520GU has a USB 2.0 port that can allow you to share a range of USB devices over the network, INCLUDING EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES!! Tomato's teddybear mod (and DD-WRT) supports NTFS, ext2/3, and FAT 16/32... sorry Mac, no HFS+, you gotta use FAT 16/32 or figure out how to mount the other extensions.
If you use Windows XP or Mac OSX you should have no problem flashing it quite easily with ASUS firemware restore utility found on the CD that should come with the package; you will need the ASUS mini flashing version (.bin) from the DD-WRT website.
If you use Windows Vista or 7, however, you will encounter difficulty. You will find that during the router firm reset period, you won't be able to upload to the router for some reason using the ASUS firmware program on the CD. You'll have to poke around the site to use the TFTP method, and may have to dl a simple TFTP client from the DD-WRT website.